Time to start studying hard, do my taxes, and look for a summer job. Oh wait, I've kinda got a job for the summer (not the same as a summer job at all!), don't like doing taxes, and hate school right now.
I'll write about my beautiful Powerbook. She needs some love, and a little bit of a bath.
I really like Mail.app. It is simple and elegant, and easy to use. Most of the time. Sometimes its really a pain in the a$$. I like how it sorts my Mail for me, but getting it to do it wasn't easy. Each rule had to be entered by hand. There is no "Create a rule from this message" option unless you install third-party software. You can't create a rule that references entries in Address Book.app: if you update an entry in Address Book.app, you have to make the same change to your rules. AND, my beef today: You cannot make a rule reference groups in the address book. I really wish there was an intelligent
[[ Hold on, there's a fucker at the door. ]]
connection between the address book and the mail client. I might even give Thunderbird a chance, just to see if it works better than this. I remember Evolution, back in my Linux days, and it did it ok. Making rules was easier too.
[[ Maybe I should write about my bad mood... ]]
Comments (1)
Agreed, the rule structure sucks. However, you will note that if you have a selected email in Mail at he time that you create a new rule in the preferences, the default values for mail are the specific values of the email. It's clumsy and not direct. Most people wouldn't be aware of the subtly.
It's as if Apple thinks that shortcuts break an interface. (right clicking on a image in Windows will allow you to set your desktop image directly from IE... that might be going too far).
My pet peeve is that this wonderful Services menu is wasted in the application menu. It would be so much more handy in the context menu. I'm use to the context menu in Windows having a nice collection of short cuts.
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Posted by majeric | March 8, 2005 8:52 PM
Posted on March 8, 2005 20:52